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B-402828 1 (2010-07-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbkj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: JiL .L A - GA O Comptroller General f~.n! 7 Accountabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: W K Engineering International, Inc. File: B-402828 Date: July 30, 2010 Jonathan R. Hickman, Esq., Negele & Associates, for the protester. Nicole M. Franchetti, Esq., Michael D. Delaney, Esq. and Judith Pullman Gever, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Under procurement for aircraft ground safety pins conducted under simplified acquisition procedures, agency properly made award for more than requested primary quantity, where solicitation requested prices for additional incremental quantities and indicated that award of additional quantities could be made without obtaining revised prices or conducting discussions. DECISION W K Engineering International, Inc. (WKE) of Valencia, California protests the issuance of a purchase order to QRP, Inc. of Leland, North Carolina under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SPM8EF-10-Q-0326, by the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP) for 2,400 aircraft ground safety pins. We deny the protest. The agency issued the RFQ on March 5, 2010, as a total small business set-aside, and provided that the agency would use simplified acquisition procedures as contained in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13. The aircraft ground safety pins for which prices were solicited were described and identified by a national stock number (NSN). Regarding the quantity of aircraft safety pins being ordered, the RFQ stated the following:

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